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Facebook’s AI is getting scarily intelligent, scarily fast

Facebook is putting some serious effort into Artificial Intelligence, and not just so that Mark Zuckerberg can have his own Jarvis-style personal home assistant…

Facebook rolls out Mentions on Android

Facebook Mentions, a platform from the social network that makes it easy for public figures to talk with their fans and each other, has…

Facebook Messenger out to kill the phone number

Facebook Messenger, which passed the 800-million user mark in 2015, is out to kill the phone number. That’s according to post from the social…

Facebook to reward small business advertisers in 2016 Facebook Awards

Facebook on Tuesday announced that entries are open for the 2016 Facebook Awards. The awards, now in their fifth year, are designed to celebrate…

Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to build his own Jarvis-style personal assistant

The beginning of the year, amongst other things, means making New Year’s resolutions. Mark Zuckerberg, known for setting himself some difficult goals, has come…

Paris, Pluto, #BlackLivesMatter: Facebook’s 2015 year in review

Facebook has released its 2015 year in review, with the upcoming US presidential elections, the recent terror attacks in Paris, and the ongoing Syrian…

How should your Facebook campaign target emerging markets?

Eight years after launching, Facebook now claims to have over one-billion “active users” logging in per month. The announcement was timely considering Facebook’s faltering…

Peter Gabriel wants to crowdsource a remake of ‘Sledgehammer’

In the annals of music video history, Peter Gabriel’s ‘Sledgehammer’ is a classic. Now the singer is asking his Facebook fans to recreate parts…

Meet the world’s 10 most Facebook addicted countries

The idea that people get addicted to Facebook doesn’t seem that strange. I mean you’ve got to wonder about those people who comment on…

Facebook starts testing want and collect buttons, gets more Pinterest-y

Don’t you love it when rumours come true? Stories have been circling for a while now that Facebook was working on a ‘want’ button…

Yup, Facebook really is scanning your private messages to increase likes

Forget all the furore around sporadic private messages appearing on your Facebook Timeline — the world’s largest social network may just have admitted to…

It’s official: Facebook has more than a billion active users

Finally. Facebook has been hovering around the 955-million active user mark for a while now… but Mark Zuckerberg has just confirmed that more than…

What’s big, blue and like a chair? Facebook apparently

As it celebrates reaching the one-billion user mark, Facebook has released a video detailing why — um… this is going to sound a bit…

US becomes second country to get Facebook’s promoted posts for people

Looks like Facebook is serious about letting individual people pay to promote their posts. The social networking giant announced late yesterday that people in…

SA company calls Facebook out on private messages scandal

Despite Facebook’s assurances that private messages sent between you and your friends were not posted on peoples walls, some users still insist that they…

3 Things Facebook wants you to know about advertising

With the release of a new tool, built in collaboration with, Datalogix, Facebook reckons it can change the way people look at online campaigns….

Facebook tells advertisers to forget the clicks

Forget the clicks, they only tell half the story. That’s the message Facebook is preparing to send out to advertisers as it unveils new…

The cull has started: Facebook is clearing out fake likes from fan pages

If you’ve been staring at your Facebook Insights panel in frustration and wondering why your fans are suddenly unliking your page, don’t blame your…

5 key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Disrupt’ interview

Mark Zuckerberg’s interview at TechCrunch Disrupt was always going to be a big one. It was, after all, the first one he’d given since…

Is Facebook a social network for narcissists? [Infographic]

Log into Facebook and what do you see? Your cousin squealing about her promotion, or posting photos of her kid who has (finally) learnt…

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